Author: Lucca S. de Mello†Mentor: Charles L. Steinhardt‡Editor: Laura Lewis †ldemello@caltech.edu, Caltech‡steinhardt@nbi.ku.dk, Cosmic Dawn Center Abstract: In 2007, astronomers discovered highly energetic, millisecond-long radio waves of extragalactic origin. These Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are poorly understood, and there is no definitive explanation for their origin yet. Using a novel machine learning technique, we have made…

Author: Gabrielle DituriMentors: Maria Spiropulu, Christina Wang, Cristian Pena, and Si XieEditor: Stephanie Chen The God Particle and Why it is Troublesome The Higgs boson (nicknamed the “God Particle”) was discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by ATLAS and CMS1. This nickname arrived due to a hilarious publishing decision in which the…

Author: Annabel GomezMentor: Dr. Xiaoqing PiEditor: Suchitra Dara Introduction Solar activities, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, produce perturbations in solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). These perturbations interact with the Earth’s magnetosphere, resulting in geomagnetic storms, charged particle precipitation, and plasma convection in the high-latitude ionosphere. These events can produce…

Author: Kavya RajagopalanMentors: Michael Brenner, Erik Winfree, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Ofer Kimchi, Agnese CuratoloEditor: Wesley Huang Introduction Over the last few decades, nanotechnology, the construction of extremely small devices, has become a rapidly developing field. Nucleic acids can be used to successfully synthesize various 2-D and 3-D nanoscale structures, ranging from circuits to autonomous motors…

Author: JC Daniel CalsoMentors: Robert H. Grubbs and Christopher B. Marotta Editor: Ann Zhu Introduction The year 2020 was marked by the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2. The virus’s deadliness is largely attributed to its highly infectious nature even in those who are asymptomatic. Although it is generally accepted that the best…